My oscar is 5inches and i would like to know;
When your oscar was 5inches how many times in a day did you feed it?
please reply, thank you
When your oscar was 5inches how many times in a day did you feed it?
please reply, thank you
Oscar question.
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I am probably going to feed mine 2-3 times a day. But I am going to do every other day water changes. I am wanting to beast him up good!
If your tank is setup to properly house an oscar you need only follow the instructions on the fish food container. This usually means as much as it will eat in 5 minutes.
You might do a second feeding at this size twice a day however until the fish is around 9 inches.
You might do a second feeding at this size twice a day however until the fish is around 9 inches.
When my oscar was five inches, it was in a 75 gallon tank. I fed it three times a day on average.
Your Oscar should only be fed once per day, which will stunt it, because that's what you are choosing to do by keeping it in a 10 gal tank. If you wanted to kill fish, why didn't you just buy a fishing pole and a knife?
Your Oscar should only be fed once per day, which will stunt it, because that's what you are choosing to do by keeping it in a 10 gal tank. If you wanted to kill fish, why didn't you just buy a fishing pole and a knife?
We feed ours once a day, but give him snacks here and there. He's a pig and would keep eating if we kept feeding him. Ours is in a 100 gallon tank so he has plenty of room to grow.
mine is 3.5"-4" right now and i feed it once a day(krill,cichlid pellets, bloodworms, and rarely shrimp) but a big quantity until its belly looks kind of pregnant, and on weekends i feed it 2x, HOWEVER at this rate my oscar has ONLY grown exactly 2" since i bought it which was 3-3.5 months ago which is quite slow for an oscar, my tank is 55 gallons and to my surprise they say the higher the temp is the faster it grows and the temp is 80-82F. and it has growed slower instead, so yours will probably not grow fast, my oscar is a pig it eats so fast in a blink and can eat to death wont stop begs so much that my severum bited him as it doesnt care if is in front of other fishes begging for food.
So what i am trying to tell you is oscars are not so fast growers as sites say they may grow faster than other cichlids such as severums, etc. but not an inch per month that is in the wild not home aquarium, 1" per month is rare, and as i said before, the conditions are excelent for fast growth and a pig-like-eater like mine and it has barely grown 2.5" in 3-4 months
So what i am trying to tell you is oscars are not so fast growers as sites say they may grow faster than other cichlids such as severums, etc. but not an inch per month that is in the wild not home aquarium, 1" per month is rare, and as i said before, the conditions are excelent for fast growth and a pig-like-eater like mine and it has barely grown 2.5" in 3-4 months
regimezx, how are the nitrates in your tank? Both of my Oscars grew at almost exactly an inch per month. My first Oscar went from 1.5" to 13" in one year. And I was doing huge water changes and heavy feeding the whole time. My most recent Oscar, I've fed very lightly, so that may be why he is only 11", even though I still do big water changes. It can also be genetic and, while it's totally possible that your Oscar was just a slower grower, you'll likely find most Oscars do grow at the stated 1" per month.
I feed mine 3 times a day, small portions of hikari cichlid gold for color, freeze dried mysis shrimp for good digestion and freeze dried bloodworms for easily digestible protein. I'd like to stress that a varied diet is more important than quantity for your cichlid to grow healthy. Good luck and hope to see some pictures!